"I am not so sure that marmalade sales really are declining."
Also: what would Paddington have said?
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- Jenny Davidson
- I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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Do you happen to know whether "smarm" (OED etym. obscure) has anything to do with marmalade (OED etym. quince-ade)? (I assume Marmite had one or the other in mind.) Not that it should, it is a perfectly good bit of onomatopoeia...
ReplyDeleteI have no good answer for that, but after pondering OED entries, it certainly seems possible: the underlying root for marmalade goes back to the word for honey. Ask someone who knows Old English, though!
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